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Restaurants, bars adjust to smoke-free environment  

Just after midnight on Saturday when the new statewide smoking ban went into effect, Spunky McDoogle's cook Colin Morse said some of the restaurant staff had a ceremonial throwing away of ashtrays.

Like other establishments in New Bern that previously allowed smoking in designated areas, the restaurant and bar on Glenburnie Road has adapted to the new state law that requires that the enclosed areas of almost all bars and restaurants be smoke-free.

Spunky's walls are being repainted to give the now smoke-free venue a clean start, Morse said, and patrons and staff will now have to go outside to light up.

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